Chennai:Ā Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 on 10 February at 6:30 pm via video conferencing.
The theme of the summit is āRedefining our common future: Safe and secure environment for allā.
Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana; James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of the Peopleās Majlis, Republic of Maldives; Amina J Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations, and Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, will be present on the occasion.
The 20th edition of The Energy and Resources Instituteās (TERI) flagship event, the World Sustainable Development Summit, will be held online from 10-12 February, 2021.
The summit will bring together a wide number of governments, business leaders, academicians, climate scientists, youth, and the civil society in the fight against climate change. Indiaās Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Ministry of Earth Sciences are key partners of the summit. Energy and industry transition, adaptation and resilience, nature based solutions, climate finance, circular economy, clean oceans and air pollution, are amongst the range of topics to be discussed.